Common Core State Standards
Content Area: English
Grade Level: 9 & 10
Domain: Reading - Literature
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard #7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two or more different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•recurring themes are incuded to not only instill an idea, but give insight to our and the author's world.
•color is widely used as visual representations of topics and themes.
•different representations fulfill different meanings.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•How do the themes relate to Fitzgerald's world and ours?
•Why does color play such a large role in our perceptions?
•Why are representations made if the content is the same? How would you represent a scene from The Great Gatsby?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to:(S)
•Key Factual Info: How the movie, book, ect. succeed/fail differently in their portrayal.
•Important Events: What formed Fitzgerald's novel and theory, especially on the 'American Dream'.
•Critical Details: Why gold, green, and other colors are so important to understanding and representing the novel.
•describe how creators use color with themes.
•judge how choice effects the representation.
•create a personal example of an integral scene.
•analyze the usage and choice of themes in representation.
•consider why the themes were relevant at the time of conception.
•relate the themes of the novel to your own world.
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
Content Area: English
Grade Level: 9 & 10
Domain: Reading - Literature
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard #7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two or more different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
What understandings are desired?
•color is widely used as visual representations of topics and themes.
•different representations fulfill different meanings.
What essential questions will be considered?
•Why does color play such a large role in our perceptions?
•Why are representations made if the content is the same? How would you represent a scene from The Great Gatsby?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
•Important Events: What formed Fitzgerald's novel and theory, especially on the 'American Dream'.
•Critical Details: Why gold, green, and other colors are so important to understanding and representing the novel.
•judge how choice effects the representation.
•create a personal example of an integral scene.
•analyze the usage and choice of themes in representation.
•consider why the themes were relevant at the time of conception.
•relate the themes of the novel to your own world.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.